Perhaps if we could get Sarah worried about a new Black Hole, she might stop subconcously thinking that working toward the end of the world has something to do with loving Jesus.

By the way, the world working together to stop econominc meltdown, may make the UN not a dirty word anymore.

RichardKanePA-2

Palin’s irresponsible claim that Obama is a terrorist can fairly be interpreted as summoning up the crowd’s responsive calls for harm to his person.

Phil, pls provide source for Palin's accusation of Obama as a "terrorist". Thanx in advance.

We should have gotten a clue of what the real purpose of naming Palin when as Frank Rich points out in the New York Times , she quoted Westbrook Pegler, a man who called for someone to splatter Bobby Kennedy’s brains; a man for whom hatred was the serum of life.

Phil, which part of the unattributed quotation Ms Palin used do you find offensive? Are you suggesting Ms Palin in her use of the quotation subscribes to the extreme views of the source? If yes, then aren't the supporters of Ms Palin justified in associating Mr Obama with the views of unrepentant bomber William Ayers?

That senator McCain allows this horrible woman to spew hatred is unconscionable.

Phil, pls provide an example of alleged "hatred" being "spewed"[?] so others can better appreciate your values; maybe it isn't hatred at all, just an opinion with which you disagree?

Hill Country Weisenheimer

Bravo, Phil!!!

No line exists between hatred and outright spoken contempt.Republican neocon sorehead tactics have brought us to the brink of civil unrest and they should be prosecuted for inciting a mob mentality, retroactive in it's scope of indictment to take down Fox , limbag and the rest who spew hate at will.

"No sense of decency", as in Mr. Clinton's disgraceful conduct and badge-of-honor behavior? As in Lyndon Johnson's blatant lie of a claim that Goldwater wanted to put Sr-90 in children's milk and to get us into a land war in Asia? As in Robert Kennedy's attempt to present himself as the "peace candidate" after having been quite instrumental in upping the ante in Southeast Asia?

Decency and political campaigns tend to be mutually exclusive.

Most sincerely,

T. J. Flapsaddle

I never bought the idea that if the otherside lies, it is okay for ourside! The time has come to take no sides and work for the truth with maybe some honor.

Malcolm

ahh yes, I remember all of them well. The LBJ Daisy ad is an oldie but a goodie. The problem as I see it is not political speech at all, but rabble rousing. Taking the extremes to extreme. When McCain stated that he was going to run a dignified campaign he set the limits beyond which he would not go. But then when he said that Obama was "making" him go negative because Obama did not agree to weekly town hall debates with him, that showed a very petty person, blaming someone else for your own decision. While I will admit that politics was a lot dirtier back 200 years ago, and even as far back as the RFK campaign, they did not suffer under the 24/7 TV news bombardment. As we have seen over the last year with some Malkin blogs, it does not take very much to make some people unhinged. anonymity encourages extremism.
There have been some rather famous social studies experiments done that tend to prove my point. Remember the blue eyed vs brown eyed children experiment where the blue eyes were encouraged to believe that the brown eyed kids were inferior. I believe it was stopped because it got out of hand. The same thing happend with "the prisoner" study. Where some kids were guards and others prisoners the experiment once more got out of hand when the "guards" kind of went ape.
The point is that free speech or protected political speech is neither free nor protected when taken to extremes. You can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater, so you can not, or should not because an adult could see the reaction, say that a presidential candidate who looks different and who has a different name is a "terrorist" or "pals around with terrorists" simply because of the precarious state of the nations nerves following 911 and 7 years of our own govt telling us over and over that we must be very afraid. We must be afraid and suspicious of everyone who does not look exactly like us(oh, and by the way-whisper-did you know that he is black? said in a slightly scandalous tone). Communism is dead so we can't use red baiting tactics. But socialism seems to have become a good substitute. The republicians have been running a campaign since the early 90s to make "liberal" into a dirty word, they have done a very good job of doing just that.
In the end it all comes down to one thing. McCain promised us an "honorable campaign" He has not delivered. The comment is still valid. "Sen McCain, in the end sir, have you left no sense of decency"

Phil, if you think McCain is a 'decent man' then you don't know McCain at all.

He chose Sarah Palin because she is just like him--a lying, cheating, 'holier-than-thou' person who thinks she can do no wrong, and who, given power, abuses that power and disregards the wishes of her constituents. Both McCain and Palin are the bottom of the barrel, scum of the earth, typical lying politicians.

Just like Bush/Cheney.

Media darling Sarah Palin has given the right-wing of the Republican Party permission to remove the masks of politeness they've been hiding behind. What the world is seeing now is the TRUE face of American Conservatives.

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind, yet strangely, I am ungrateful to those teachers." Prentiss

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I'm actually glad that McCain/Palin have chosen a path of vile slander against Obama. It is their undoing and will insure victory for Obama. : )

They've crossed the Rubicon and there is no turning back...!

Carl Nemo **==

Many the commenters above, talked about what they remembered. I wonder if any of us commenting on this blog are under 60 years old. Perhaps CHB needs to appeal also to younger readers. Perhaps the latest October surprise piece will do that, "node/11569".
RichardKanePA

Richard, I am under 60. Just because I remember the LBJ Daisy ad-I think that I was in HS or maybe jrHS then-does not make me an old person, could be that some of the commenters looked up on that ol internets-you know, the series of tubes thingy-and that is how they know about how politics was back in the day.

I am under 60, also. I do remember the 60's well. I was a young child, but I remember the turmoil, the sadness, fear,the pride in Martin Luther King and his courage (I'm caucasian, but have great pride and admiration in what MLK tried to accomplish), and well remember Kent State where our own government turned on it's peaceful protesters and killed them. Our government is slightly DIFFERENT today, it's worse. Beware.